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Royal Astronomical Society: The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), the largest sub-millimetre telescope in the world, which was under threat for some years as a result of cuts to the UK science budget, may now be able...

Three volunteers stepped out of China's Lunar Palace 1 last month after a 105-day shakeout mission -- not on the moon, but at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Recently discovered galaxies shaped like jellyfish leave a long trail of hot gas and dust, victims of even hotter gas from their surrounding cluster of galaxies.   --

Software that controls spacecraft is being adapted as a way to detect bank fraud.

Back in the 1970′s when NASA launched the two Voyager spacecraft to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, I remember being mesmerized by a movie created from Voyager 1 images of the movement of the clouds in Jupiter’...

Need a caffeine hit in space? For astronauts on the International Space Station, it will take less than two minutes to brew an espresso in a coffee machine slated for launch next year.

The two different classes of jet-spewing active galaxies called blazars may, in fact, be a single hybrid type that evolves over time, according to new research.

The alt-rock band OK Go is known for their innovative videos. You've probably seen the one with them on treadmills; it's pretty enjoyable. They just came out with a new one, called "The Writing's on the Wall", featuring ...

(Phys.org) --Using ESA's Herschel space observatory, astronomers have discovered that a molecule vital for creating water exists in the burning embers of dying Sun-like stars.

A proposal claims that harnessing quantum entanglement could surpass the accuracy of any single atomic clock --

Senior astronomers approved a plan to use Hubble to search for a faraway space rock for the New Horizons probe to rendezvous with after it completes primary observations of Pluto.

Angry Birds and NASA have teamed up for the second time to develop a new version of the popular game. The new iteration of the Angry Birds franchise sends players to the space agency's next cosmic target -- asteroids.

Boeing will not protest the U.S. Air Force's recent award to Raytheon of a $298 million contract modification on the Family of Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals program.

ULA hopes to select a single concept for development this year.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Berkeley Lab researchers have developed a new technique called two-dimensional electronic-vibrational spectroscopy that can be used to study the interplay between electrons and atom...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory detected over 400 x-ray sources within the galaxy. Several of them are X-ray binary systems that contain a neutron star or black hole orbiting a Sun-like star. FULL STORY: ://goo.gl/Dt5Abv

NASA Breaking News: The return of supersonic passenger travel may be coming closer to reality thanks to NASA's efforts to define a new standard for low sonic booms.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured imagery of a plasma burst on May 27th, 2014. A period of two hours is seen in the video, looped several times.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: On Thursday, June 19, NASA will host a televised update on recent progress and upcoming milestones in the agency's efforts to identify, capture and relocate an asteroid...

Phoenix Comicon is now part of history, but one part of it will haunt me until my final days. At my first panel, "The Science of Science Fiction," multiple-Hugo-award-winning author John Scalzi noted the stage was set up...

The return of supersonic passenger travel may be coming closer to reality thanks to NASA's efforts to define a new standard for low sonic booms.

We all fear black holes, but how many of them are there out there, really? Between the stellar mass black holes and the supermassive ones, just how much of our Universe is black holes?